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This device will automatically enter how much you chew

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Eating too much? A Dartmouth researcher thinks he may have a solution for all those who hate manually writing into an app all the foods they eat throughout the day — a wearable system that detects how much [...]

Twitch nabs exclusive streaming deal with Blizzard for 20+ major e-sports events

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Twitch, the popular game-streaming site owned by Amazon, just inked a deal with one of the most popular game developers to broadcast a host of game tournaments exclusively on the service. The two-year deal between Twitch and Blizzard [...]

Uber is implementing tipping, but how well it works will be critical

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

On the heels of what must feel to employees like the longest six months in Uber‘s eight-year history, the company last week tried ending relentless news reports about its corporate misbehavior by encouraging its CEO, Travis Kalanick, to [...]

Tesla hires deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to lead Autopilot vision

June 21st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Tesla has hired deep learning and computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy in a key Autopilot role, Karpathy most recently held a role as a researcher at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence non-profit backed by Elon Musk. He has an [...]

Google Cloud Platform launches in Sydney

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Nobody can accuse Google of not moving as fast as it can to make up the considerable gap in available cloud regions between its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and its two biggest competitors: AWS and Microsoft Azure. Today, [...]

Tickets are now available for the TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

The TechCrunch Summer Party is a thing of tradition and we hope you can make it out this year. Like in year’s past we’ll gather on the spacious grounds of August Capital in Menlo Park and enjoy an [...]

Soldo, a London fintech startup that offers a multi-user spending account, raises $11M led by Accel

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Soldo, the London-based fintech startup that offers a multi-user spending account, first launched for consumers and since tailored to businesses too, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. Read More on Tech Crunch

These undergrads built a Generative Adversarial Net that creates art

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

I can’t tell you for sure if we’ve reached peak GAN, but there are far more people messing around with them than a year ago. Two undergrads at Williams College taught themselves introductory machine learning and read a [...]

Fetch launches self-service truck rentals to help you move the big stuff

June 20th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Moving furniture generally sucks. Fetch wants to be there for those moments when you need to transport something that won’t fit in the trunk of an Uber XL. The service, which allows users to easily rent trucks or [...]